Pro-government Syrian forces continue to make headway in that country as fierce fighting ends in the strategic border town of Qusair with Assad's troops and Hezbollah re-taking the city.
The Chairman of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on Syria, Paulo Pinheiro, presented a report drawn up by a panel of United Nations human rights experts today detailing the war crimes committed by both Syrian and opposition forces in Syria.
At least 119 people died in a poultry slaughterhouse and subsequent fire that broke out in the northeastern Chinese province of Jilin just after dawn on Monday.
Russian sources say that no S-300 anti-aircraft missiles have been shipped to Syria as yet, rejecting claims by Assad that he had received the first shipment of the long-range surface to air missiles.